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Title: Hear It Now (Episode 08)
Date: 1951-02-02
Description: Narrated by Charles Collingwood and Douglas Edwards (Edward Murrow ill). Olan Tice, announcer. Content includes: Eric Sevareid comments on Dwight Eisenhower's address to Congress, then Congressional reactions. Senator Robert Taft speaks out against Truman Administration policies in Europe, Sam Rayburn doesn't share Taft's views. Vice President Alben Barkley talks about Rayburn's long tenure as Speaker of the House. British Prime Minister Atlee raises taxes and reaction from man on the street about meat rationing. Developments in Korea. Famine in India and Eleanor Roosevelt on why we should help out. The A-bomb in Nevada, reaction to a test by the public. National League's 75th anniversary.
Series: News programs -- Hear It Now
Subject: Baseball; Interviewing on radio; Korean War, 1950-1953; Nuclear weapons 1884-1962; Radio programs; Radio talk shows
Subject -- Personal Name: Barkley, Alben William, 1877-1956; Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969; Friendly, Fred W.; Murrow, Edward R.
Local Identifier: HearItNow-008
Type: Sound recordings
Physical Location: American University Library -- Special Collections
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-50168
Rights statement: Reproduction and copyright information regarding this recording is available from the American University Library -- Special Collections.

Title: Hear It Now (Episode 13)
Date: 1951-03-09
Description: Edited and produced by Fred W. Friendly and Edward R. Murrow. Olan Tice, announcer. Content includes: In Korea, General MacArthur predicts stalemate. Senator Margaret Chase Smith on those who oppose Dwight Eisenhower as possible GOP candidate in 1952. Dr. Vanaver Bush speaks of the A-bomb. Close-up: The American Working Man, Model 1951.
Series: News programs -- Hear It Now
Subject: Interviewing on radio; Korean War, 1950-1953; Nuclear weapons; Radio programs; Radio talk shows
Subject -- Personal Name: Friendly, Fred W.; MacArthur, Douglas, 1880-1964; Murrow, Edward R.
Local Identifier: HearItNow-013
Type: Sound recordings
Physical Location: American University Library -- Special Collections
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-50171
Rights statement: Reproduction and copyright information regarding this recording is available from the American University Library -- Special Collections.

Title: Hear It Now (Episode 16)
Date: 1951-03-30
Description: Edited and produced by Fred W. Friendly and Edward R. Murrow. Olan Tice, announcer. Content includes: Enrico Fermi and Leo Szilard comment on South American report that the A-bomb can be made without uranium. Controversy over war mobilization continues. Developments in Korea. 23rd Oscar award presentations: Judy Holiday, Gloria Swanson, and Jose Ferrer. Close-up: Hollywood, 1950. A close-up which includes Hedda Hopper, Bob Hope, Groucho Marx, John Wayne.
Series: News programs -- Hear It Now
Subject: Academy Awards (Motion pictures); Interviewing on radio; Korean War, 1950-1953; Nuclear weapons; Radio programs; Radio talk shows
Subject -- Personal Name: Fermi, Enrico, 1901-1954; Friendly, Fred W.; Murrow, Edward R.; Szilard, Leo
Local Identifier: HearItNow-016
Type: Sound recordings
Physical Location: American University Library -- Special Collections
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-50174
Rights statement: Reproduction and copyright information regarding this recording is available from the American University Library -- Special Collections.

Title: View of nuclear reactor at Gatun
Creator: Child, Jack
Publisher: American University Library. Archives and Special Collections.
Subject: Nuclear energy -- Panama; Ships -- Panama; Panama -- Description and travel; Panama -- Pictorial works
Local Identifier: JCSL_3832
Type: color slide
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/JCSL_3832
Rights statement: Reproduction and copyright information regarding this image is available from the American University Library -- Special Collections.